Tuesday, February 05, 2008

A Good Neighbor - Worth His Weight in Expensive Beer

Yet again we've been dumped on with more snow. One of our cars has told us by screeching its pretty little wheels that it will not leave our driveway in its current, unplowed condition.

If we had a regular driveway, my guess is a quick forty minutes with a snow shovel and we'd settle the score with our reluctant car.

But our driveway is U-shaped, and then takes a long L to the back of the house. It would take a while to shovel it all by hand. Like sixty-four years.

So imagine my delight, my sublime happiness when I heard a buzzing noise this afternoon.

I walked out to the back gate to investigate (yes, we still have some straggling wreaths around the property). Much to my surprise was a jolly not-so-old man on his John Deere! My awesome friend, Pam, married a swell guy with yard equipment.

And he came over all on his own to plow our driveway.

No one asked him.

As you can see, Jacob took an interest right away. I was standing in the 25 degree weather, Jack on my hip, shooting pictures, and screaming, "Whooo Hooo, Steve! Yay!" Like the laid-back, understated gal that I am.After a bit when I was done embarassing myself taking pictures, I called Pam and gushed my thanks. Now we can drive into town tomorrow. Things like this make my day.

35 comments:

I remember feeling that way when we got so much snow and I was pregnant and Zach was a toddler and J just couldn't shovel our whole driveway on his own and the snowblower from across the street suddenly arrived. Good friends!

YAY Steve! I know that feeling--how great! We have a shared driveway now, 5 houses off the one main drive, but there is a joint snow-blower to clear the main area at one of the neighbor's houses. Unfortunately, last snowfall was not deep enough for the snow-blower to work, so Conrad and one of the neighbor husbands hand-shoveled the whole thing and all 5 mini-driveways. Good times.

Our neighbor (and we just moved here in August!) snowblowed our driveway for us a few months ago. Then we promptly went out and bought a snow blower. And a case of beer for our neighbor.Yay for neighborly love!

My parents had a cheaper plan than getting a John Deere - have enough kids, they do it for free:)

Now, I live on the river and within a mile of the ocean in NJ and (knock wood) haven't had to shovel yet this year! We get rain, glorious rain instead of snow. I will now have completely jinxed the rest of the winter - expect to see that NJ got feet of snow dumped on it tomorrow;)

Holy Moly, Batman!!! That was a lot of snow!! And how lucky for you to be in a neighborhood with Steve and his "snow mover"...yes, the man deserves brownies...or a cake...or something else really big and sweet!!

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Mother of five. Two girls - three boys. Fully understand why some animals eat their young. Love kids dearly but am often at a loss as to how to wade the murky waters of female adolescence. I'm an American girl living in Abu Dhabi while my husband works here for a bit. This makes the teenage thing EVEN BETTER.